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Recent Natural Disasters! (pg. 2)
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| Abercrombie |
| quote: | Originally posted by jennypie
Cause you've been alive, what? 20 some odd years? |
I was going to say something like that but not so bluntly :P |
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| ÖZmözis |
| quote: | Originally posted by UmmiE
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I am still sticking with the theory of we are just coming out of the last ice age... |
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| Intangible |
| quote: | Originally posted by PurpleHaze
These are pretty high scale disasters involving the loss of many many people and I just had the thought that these are occuring at an increased rate than I've ever seen before. It seems as if as soon as one disaster occurs and gets documented, another one just hits.
Is the world coming to a slow end????? :sadgreen: |
Natural disasters have been happenings since.... well since earth was formed.
Yes ones today are bad but so have the ones in the past, look what the dinosaurs when through...
In 1556 nearly 850,000 people died in an earthquake in China. China has also experienced floods during biblical times that killed more than 300, 000 people.
There have always been disasters this horrible and worse. And with globalization we are more aware of what is going on around the world....
However I wont deny that global warming is likely having an effect on things as well. |
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| *~LiSa-LoO~* |
| This will probably be the only post I make in this thread b/c I don't feel like getting into a global warming argument....but global warming has increased the likelihood of these natural disasters happening, as well as the intensity of the disasters. |
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| Jer. |
| quote: | Originally posted by PurpleHaze
Is the world coming to a slow end????? :sadgreen: |
Considering the length of time that the earth's been proven to exist, this is a pretty short time in which the earth's so eloquently told us to ' right off'. |
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| rabbitjoker |
| Disasters have happened like this for all of history - the difference now is that people are everywhere on the earth and as a result are affected by them (and reporting on them). |
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| patpicos |
| quote: | Originally posted by UmmiE
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God bless global warming :)
on a more serious note, lots of ed up stuff happening over the last few years. Beside the massive hearthquake in china, most of it can be attributed to global warming.
Beside this yr with lots of snow, the last few years have been really low on snow. I remember seeing banks of snow taller than me as a kid....nowadays, i barely see snow up to my knees.
The big ice storm in qc, the deluge in Saguenay, Katrina in the states, tsunami in india, myanmar almost wiped. various tornadoes in the last few weeks hitting the US(arkansas, alabama and family), countless fires in calif. and now fires in florida..
There is a visible impact to the global warming and such. |
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| patpicos |
| quote: | Originally posted by nusty
Earthquake Sets Japan Back To 2147
JULY 23, 2007 | ISSUE 43•30
TOKYO—Japanese government officials confirmed Monday that the damage wrought on Japan's national infrastructure by the July 16th earthquake— particularly on the country's protective force field, quantum teleportation system, zero-point fusion energy broadcasting grid, and psychodynamic communications network—was severe enough to set the technologically advanced island nation back approximately 300 years to a primitive mid-22nd-century state of existence.
"Japan finds itself in crisis, with our society and culture temporarily reverting to a pre-cyberunification era," said Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, communicating non-telekinetically for the first time in his nearly 150 years of post-cryogenic life. "Though many citizens have been limited to algorithm- based emotion detection, neutron baths, speed limits below the speed of light, and other barbaric inconveniences for over a week now, I promise we will pull through."
Abe rejected persistent calls to simply reboot the damaged nation, saying that such a measure could result in the loss of vital data, such as Niigata Prefecture and sections of Mount Fuji.
The quake, which was centered in the bluefin tuna–cloning fields near the northwest city of Kashiwazaki, measured bb460.c22/k, or the rough equivalent of 6.8 on the less sophisticated Western Richter scale. It resulted in the first confirmed human or human-hybrid fatality in Japan in over 60 years, and more than 700 injuries.
Citizens' protective exoskeletons reportedly remained operational through the first wave of seismic activity and three of the four aftershocks. According to first responders, injured exoskeletons were hastily repaired with antiquated third-generation nanotechnology, while subatomic robots were released into the bloodstream to fix any irregularity they could recognize.
"The earthquake destroyed our connection with the Trinity Flow, the frequency that harmonizes the...you would say, I think, 'computer'?...with the daemonetic implants in our citizens' overbrains," scientist Hiroshi Ishiguro- Prime of the TechnoDiet told Western reporters.
Teleportation of food and water remains at a standstill as technicians in Kobe continue to fix the extensive damage to the eight-million-yottabyte mainframe computer, a four-by-three-inch quantum femtoprocessor responsible for accessing and fulfilling the
thoughts and desires of all Japanese. The United States' offer of $20 million and a shipment of steel, tractors, forklifts, and cranes was politely declined.
The prime minister said that the greatest effort would be exerted on rebuilding the Procross Buster Quasigravitic Lensing Frame, the motive force behind Japan's automated network of roads, aerobuildings, and levitation canals. The total cost of the project, the prime minister speculated, is somewhere in the ë70 trillion range, a majority of which will be underwritten by Nippon Tertius, a transubsidiary civilization in the Haltropic galaxy.
Meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people throughout Japan continue to live in desperate circumstances.
Those whose metahabitats were destroyed in the quake are being issued replacements, though citizens are expected to grow them themselves. Kyoto resident Aiko Shunji criticized the homes' reconfiguring walls and blink-controlled climate as "relics of the past" that are "barely suitable for humans, let alone for members of Quake victims wander the streets in search of synthetic water and a neural implant charging station. Japan's Glorious and Peaceful Ninth Recension."
"The older generations can talk all they want about the virtues of eating meals in pill form and taking the moving sidewalk instead of the wormhole, but this is just plain deprivation, and it sucks," Shunji, 92, said. "It doesn't help that recovery efforts have been so slow. Why is it taking so long for officials to reconnect something as basic as the Neural Net?"
Abe reassured citizens that the disaster was merely a temporary setback.
"It should only be a matter of days before the Asahi Ultima Crisis chronotriggered reversion engine is once more online," Abe said. "Citizens of Japan, I promise you: Once our folded-space-time technology is again functional, this whole earthquake will never have happened."
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is this the japanese version of star wars? :p |
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| patpicos |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Disasters have happened like this for all of history - the difference now is that people are everywhere on the earth and as a result are affected by them (and reporting on them). |
+1 on the money! theres too many pple on earth, natural cleanup somehow. |
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| Stilez |
| Mother earth is taking back what's hers |
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| jchung52 |
| wait till a meteor hits. thats gonna be nuts |
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| Pett |
| quote: | Originally posted by rabbitjoker
Disasters have happened like this for all of history - the difference now is that people are everywhere on the earth and as a result are affected by them (and reporting on them). |
ding ding ding |
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